All humans and heavenly beings are made in the image of Yahweh (Gen. 1:26-27), so there is always a chance that the powers of this world will do things here and there that echo Yahweh’s will. When such moments come, we may join them in those efforts, recognizing that good has broken through. Justice, after all, is what God instituted such powers to carry out, so we should hope and even expect that such moments will come, while wisely advocating for such moments when they don’t.
But God forbid that we see a political leader do something right and suddenly fall into complete dedication to them. God forbid that Yahweh get imaged correctly in one political space and suddenly we think that Babel is no more. Her systems run so deep that even Jesus recognized that the poor will always be with us (Mk. 14:7). America is no less Babel simply because they changed a few laws here and there. There will always be an injustice for Christians to be prophetic about.
And so we must rise up in allegiance to Heaven and do our due diligence wherever possible. Prophetic justice is a rambunctious work and naturally annoying to our Babel-soaked ears. If we want to hear what the Holy Spirit is saying, we must put down our walls and listen—for nothing makes us more defensive than prophecy. When a poor, oppressed, or marginalized person tries to explain how they’re treated to those of us who haven’t experienced the same thing, our default is to justify ourselves and explain to them how their perspective is wrong.
But what if the Spirit wants to speak to us out of the voice of the poor, oppressed, and marginalized? What if we should listen to the voice of those that he has been telling us to serve? What if we were willing to be provoked and convicted by the people around us? Perhaps then our hearts could be motivated into acts of justice.
This is an excerpt from my shortest book, Supernatural Justice.
Jamin Bradley 
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